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The Winning Entry: “When Charles Bukowski Met Bob Dylan” [by Angela Ball] with judge Jim Cummins’s comments & runners up
Charles Bukowski in One Corner; in the Other, Bob Dylan If anyone should take eighteen-shot Dylan Thomas’s name,it’s me. I challenge you to a duelwith two bottles of Four Roses. –Chuck, that may be…
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Anne Sexton: On the Anniversary of her Death [ed. Terence Winch]
The Ballad of the Lonely Masturbator The end of the affair is always death. She’s my workshop. Slippery eye, out of the tribe of myself my breath finds you gone. I horrify…
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“Modernist Lament” [by James Cummins]
Modernist Lament When his gods are fragments, man’s of a piece;But once he put his Higher Self in charge,Man languished in a dualistic grief,Always seeking a demon he could purge.The desert was empty, so…
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Bill Zavatsky: Pick of the Week [ed. Terence Winch]
Bill Zavatsky. Photo by Nora Howard ____________________________________________________________ 104 Bus Uptown How bad can it…
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Two Poems [by Mitch Sisskind]
Hugh Hefner For the exordium of a bon vivant lifestyle In the dour and savage city of Chicago He merits all the appreciation in the world. Here's what I mean. In 1953 I attended…
